The most excellent historie of the merchant of Venice : with the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the Iewe towards the sayd merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh and the obtayning of Portia by the choyse of three chests : as it hath beene diuers times acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants

by: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Hayes, Thomas, -1604?, publisher; Roberts, James, -1618?, printer; Lewis, Charles, 1786-1836, binder; Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner

Publication date: 1600

Publisher: At London : Printed by I. R[oberts]. for Thomas Heyes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Greene Dragon

Collection: bplsctpbs; bplsceep; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Signatures: A-I⁴ K².

Bartlett, H.C. Shakespeare early editions

Bartlett & Pollard. Shakespeare's quartos (rev. ed.)

Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue

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Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.176.16 bound by Charles Lewis in double paneled brown morocco-grained leather with gilt floral tooling. Board edges and turn-ins gilt. All text block edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. Purchased at the sale of Richard Heber by Obadiah Rich on behalf of Thomas Pennant Barton.